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Max-Planck Odense Center

Max Planck Odense Center is a joint Center between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and University of Southern Denmark.

Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging (MaxO) is an interdisciplinary and international collaboration between researchers drawn from demography, epidemiology, medicine, biology, mathematics and statistics. The center conducts innovative research to discover the basic causes and key consequences of the age trajectories of survival, including also their policy implications.

Research clusters

Lifespan varies dramatically, ranging from several years in crisis populations to many decades across time and place. We apply the pace shape framework to populations across the tree of life to uncover the key factors that determine patterns of birth and death. Go to...

Today women enjoy a longer life than men in all countries of the world, but women tend to report poorer self-rated health. By studying the sex differences in health and survival; we aim to understand the mechanisms underlying this paradox. Go to...

Innovative approaches are nessesary when dealing with problematic population data. BaSTA is a tool that facilitates the estimation of age-specific mortality from complex ecological and historical datasets. Go to...

When Cecil the Lion was killed last year by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe, it caused an international outcry. Now researchers from the Universities of Southern Denmark and Oxford have calculated that many more males from the same park are likely to die in conflicts with humans.